Although the fat lady (or possibly more appropriately, the portly former Home Secretary) has yet to sing on the subject, yesterday’s statements from the Home Office to make it a racing certainty that ID cards are dead in this parliamentary administration. The portly former Home Secretary meanwhile has been busy singing denunciations of John Reid’s misdeeds in other areas, but will no doubt warble on the sad end of ID cards just as soon as he gets a minute in his busy schedule.

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